Mabuk

Ditayangan ombak bujang bersela
dijunjung hulu rapuh semata
dikipasi angin bergurau senda
lupakan kelana akan dirinya...

Dimabukkan harum pecah terberai
diulikkan bujuk rangkai-rinangkai
datanglah semua mengungkai simpai
hatimu bujang sekali bisai

Bulan mengintai di celah awan
bersemayam senyum sayu-sendu
teja undur perlahan-lahan
mukanya merah mengandung malu.

Mabuk

Rumput rendah rangkum-rinangkum
tibun embun turun ke rumpun
lembah-lembah menjunjung harum
mendatangkan kayal bujang mencium

Melur sekaki dibuaikan sepoi
dalam cahaya rupa melambai
pelik bunga membawaku ragu
layu kupetik bunga gemalai

Bunga setangkai gemelai permai
dalam tanganku jatuh terserah
kelopak kupandang sari kunilai
datanglah jemu mengatakan sudah

Bulan berbuni di balik awan
taram-temaram cendera cahaya
teja lari ke dalam lautan
tinggallah aku tiada berpelita.

Amir Hamzah

On Waiting

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Khaled Hosseini

The tears that turn to pearls

This is a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls.

Even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he has to found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow.

The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

extract fom Kite Runner

Truth

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini

Senyum hatiku, senyum

Senyum hatiku, senyum
gelak hatiku, gelak
dukamu tuan, aduhai kulum
walaupun hatimu, rasakan retak

Benar mawar kembang
melur mengirai kelopak
anak dara duduk berdendang
tetapi engkau, aduhai fakir, dikenang orang sekalipun tidak.

Kuketahui, terkukursulang menyulang
murai berkicau melagukan cinta
tetapi engkau aduhai dagang
umpamakan pungguk merayukan purnama.

Sungguh matahari dirangkum segara
purnama raya di lingkung bintang
tetapi engkau, aduhai kelana
siapa mengusap hatimu bimbang?

Senyum hatiku, senyum

Diam hatiku , diam
cubakan ria, hatiku ria
sedih tuan, cubalah pendam
umpama disekam, api menyala.

Mengapakah rama-rama boleh bersenda
alun boleh mencium pantai
tetapi beta makhluk utama
duka dan cinta menjadi selampai?

Senyap, hatiku senyap
adakah boleh engkau merana
sudahlah ini nasip yang tetap
engkau terima di pangkuan bonda

Amir Hamzah

when you are drowning

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

John Lennon

John Lennon

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

future planning

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully.  After five years, look at it with suspicion.  And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. 

Alfred Edward Perlman

expectation

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.  Others go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. 

George Bernard Shaw

What we become

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. 

Mignon McLaughlin

prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. 

Author Unknown

Changes

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. 

Ellen Glasgow

The Smile

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.

Khaled Hosseini

Kamadewi

Kembali pula engkau datang
kepadaku di waktu sekarang
tengah menjadi permainan gelombang
gelombang terberai di bunga karang

Lah lama kau kulupakan
lah lampau bagi kenangan
lah lenyap dari pandangan

Tetapi sekarang apatah mula
apakah sebab, aduhai bonda
ia datang menyusupi beta?

Kau ganggu hati yang reda
kau kacau air yang tenang
kau jagakan dewi asmara
kau biarkan air mata berlinang

Kamadewi

O, asmara kau permainkan aku
laguan kasih engkau bisikkan
gendang kenangan engkau palu
dari kelupaan aku, engkau sentakkan

Pujaan mana kau kehendaki
persembahan mana kau ingini
aduhai angkara Asmara dewi

Gelak sudah beta sembahkan
cinta sudah tuan putuskan
apatah lagi dewi harapkan
pada beta duka sampaian...

kamadewi! gendewamu bermalaikan seroja
puadai padma seraga
tetapi aku sepanjang masa
duduk di atas hamparan duka

Amir Hamzah

Footprint on the sand

Do you still remember that dark cold winter night when we walk on the beach in that faraway place, how we wished that the tide will not washed away our footprints on the sand and that we can follow it back to where we start with the help of the bright full moon in the sky.

The tide came in and the waves washed away our footprints and we get lost in that dark cold night and I remember you said between the sigh and the laughter , " Maybe in living this life we shouldn't wished for silly things and sometime things are just mean to be."

Well now that we have drifted apart I kept remembering that night. Those footprints in the sand may be washed away by the tide but it still remain  in my mind and that night may be cold and quiet but my heart can only remember your laughter and the warmth of having you by my side. 

Maybe if I try and look for footprints that was left in our hearts that time has washed away and follow it all the way back to our shared memories, things will be as before and the nights wouldn't be so dark and cold...or maybe I am just wishing for silly things and that sometime things are just mean to be.

The Mystic answer

I say that life is neither a curse nor a punishment,
But a rose filled with the beauty of desire.

The stem of the rose is your life upon this earth,
The thorns, painful lessons you bring unto
yourself, that you might learn.
The leaves are those joys that enter
your life with the tenderness of an unseen Love.

Curse not the sorrow of your thorns,
for the deeper they cut unto the heart of
your being, the greener the leaves of joy shall be.

Daniel Miller

Dr Seuss

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happen.

Nietzsche

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Hegel

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Perfect conditions

Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct the course along the way.

Tim Ferriss

Cluttered desk

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?

Albert Einstein  

thinking

To think about not thinking, it is already thinking...One should not think about not thinking at all.

Zen

Kenangan

Tambak beriak intan terberai
kemuncak bambu tunduk melambai
mas kumambang mengisak sampai
merenungkan mata kesuma teratai

Senyap sentosa sebagai sendu
tanjung melampung merangkum kupu
hanya bintang cemerlang mengambang
diawang terbentang sepanjang pandang

Dalam sunyi kudus mulia
murca kanda dibibir kesumba
undung dinda melindung kita
heran kanda menajubkan jiwa

Dinda berbisik rapat di telinga
lengan melengkung memangku kepala
putus-putus sekata dua;
"kunang-kunang mengintai kita"...

Happiness is a journey

Dance, like no one is watching you.

Love, like you’ve never been hurt before.

Sing, like no one can hear you.

Work, like you don’t need money.

Live, like heaven is on earth.

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Father Alfred de Souza

When autumn leaves start to fall.

The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sun-burned hands I used to hold
Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter's song
But I miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall.

Johnny Mercer

Red Pill

You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember…all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.

The red pill symbolises embracing the some times painful truth of reality.

Blue Pill

You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

The blue pill symbolises blissful ignorence, in a life consisting of habit, of things you believe you know. You are comfortable, you do not need truth to live.